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Little Fish: This Could Tail Off Really Quickly

December 7, 2025·33 min·3 clips

The UK plants 22 billion carrot seeds a year, producing 700,000 tons of carrots.

This episode of Little Fish features hosts Andrew Hunter-Murray, Dan Schreiber, and James Harkin sharing listener-submitted facts. Andrew begins with a preemptive correction about a quiz on the oldest actors to play James Bond, clarifying Sean Connery's exclusion from a specific film. A listener fact reveals that some people attempted to block a U.S. Elvis Presley stamp by arguing he must be dead to appear on one. The hosts note a similar UK rule and mention Roger Taylor from Queen accidentally appearing on a stamp while alive. Another fact claims the Mall of America is warmed in winter by human body heat, though the hosts question its complete accuracy. The world's largest mall is identified as the Iran Mall in Tehran. A representative from British Carrots provides statistics, including that 22 billion carrot seeds are sown in the UK annually, producing 700,000 tons. The hosts learn the UK is 97% self-sufficient in carrots. A financial fact details a Dutch water bond from 1648 that is still paying interest, with an even older bond from 1624 also active. A quiz on the oldest James Bond actors names Roger Moore as the oldest and Daniel Craig as the second oldest. The hosts recall that explorer Ranulph Fiennes auditioned to play Bond but was reportedly told he looked too much like a farmer. A study on streaked shearwaters finds they excrete 5% of their body mass in feces every hour. A news article describes a woman whose bipolar disorder entered remission after receiving fecal transplant enemas from her husband. According to a Royal Shakespeare Company study, 50% of the world's children study Shakespeare, who is named the most popular figure associated with UK art and culture. Other figures on that list include The Beatles, Queen Elizabeth II, J.K. Rowling, David Beckham, and Winston Churchill. The episode closes with the hosts awarding "fact custodian" titles to Patreon supporters, assigning them ownership of past facts like women wearing bird of paradise feathers in 19th-century New York and Alan Turing losing his buried treasure. The tone is lighthearted and conversational, filled with banter and humorous tangents. Listeners who enjoy quirky trivia, playful debates, and informal comedy will appreciate this episode. Those preferring tightly structured, single-topic narratives might find it too digressive.

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